Without calibrating the consequences, Jose Donoso worked as a literary critic in Mexico in 1965. He openly and incisively reviewed the local narrative novelties of the time. The effects were immediate: a strange revenge ended with him in the hospital. An editorial commentary, inserted in what would be his last article in Mexico, unleashed a literary controversy that included prominent writers, such as Carlos Fuentes, Vicente Lenero and Juan Garcia Ponce. The Donoso affair constitutes a complex hiatus in the masculine pact that has characterized the Latin American Boom.